Associate Process Automation Engineer Models

Job # EE25020

Job Title Associate Process Automation Engineer – Models

Office Location Roanoke, VA

Business Unit/Department Industrial Systems

Sales Territory, if applicable N/A

General Role Description

Develop, verify, and implement algorithms and transfer functions that define the electro-mechanical operation of industrial machinery, primarily metal rolling mills

Role Accountabilities

- Develop algorithms and transfer functions that define the electro-mechanical operation of industrial machinery, primarily metal rolling mills

- Verify these algorithms and transfer functions using computer simulation of mechanical processes and/or analysis of empirical data from operating machinery

- Use verified mathematical algorithms and transfer functions to design and implement software which generates control system setup and operating parameters that enable advanced automatic computer based control of industrial machinery

- Provide regular, accurate, and considered commissioning status reports to parties deemed appropriate to the situation

- Collaborate with project engineering team to ensure inter-operation of software modules into overall project

- Conduct and/or support simulation to verify satisfy project requirements

- Conduct and/or support simulation to verify the Human Machine Interface satisfies project requirements

- Support client witness of unit and system test as needed

- Recommend improvements to test procedures to better identify where software does not meet all project requirements for assigned scope of work

- Support commissioning activities at client facilities required and authorized

General Employee Accountabilities

- Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

- Give manager best advice

- Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

- Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

- Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

- Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

- Recommend viable improvements proactively

- Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering with control automation coursework, computer engineering, materials science, physics or related field or equivalent via education and/or work experience

- Classes, labs, and projects with concentration in some combination of mathematical modeling, finite element analysis, or thermodynamics

- Personal computer hardware and software skill proficiency

- Co-op, internship, or other work experience

- Demonstrated knowledge of High-Level Programming Language, such as C++ and object-oriented programming using the Microsoft development environment

- Demonstrated problem solving skills

- Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills

- Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts

- Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility

- Proficiency in MS Office

- Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, approximately 15%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

- MS in physics, material science, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering

- Research project or thesis in the areas of mathematical modeling, finite element analysis, or thermodynamics

- Work experience as research assistant, intern, or co-op in the above areas

- Work experience designing and/or maintaining hot or cold rolling control systems or metal strip processing line control systems

- Experience in international field engineering assignments

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